Prose Appreciation

The East, an excerpt from the light story Youth written by Joseph Conrad is a descriptive paragraph about a younker mans first impression of the east. The tone of the excerpt is admiring because the author uses words such as impalpable and enslaving suggesting that the materialisation deckhand was overwhelmed by the magnificent sight of the east. The aim in descriptive paragraphs is to build descriptive detail. The writer mostly uses long fourth dimensions which are suitable for a descriptive paragraph because there can be a lot of detail packed into long convicts.However, there are two short sentences. The section sentence And this is how I project the east is used to bring out suspense while the short sentence near the end of the excerpt That I can never forget emphasis just how long an impression the east made on the vote counter. While most of the sentences are assertive sentences, used to fancy the scene of the east through the eyes of the storyteller as he approache s the bay, most sentences are in addition loose sentences to accumulate descriptive detail.However, in the excerpt there are some unordinary sentences. The opening sentence And this is how I see the east is a periodic sentence and the delay of the verb see is used to create suspense, on the other hand, to emphasize the immense size of the bay, the writer uses the parallel sentence I see a bay, a astray bay. We see the same affect on wide in the parallel sentence as we saw on See is the periodic sentence. Through out the excerpt, more different types of language devices are used.Sight imagery used to implant the image of the mountains and the bay the narrator is seeing into the readers mind, Tactile imagery to give the sensation of holding an oar in hands, Olfactory imagery to see the reader experience the smells of the wind as the narrator did, Similes I see a bay, a wide bay, smooth as glass and polished like ice to explain just how perfect a day is was and how calm the sea was , and It was impalpable and enslaving, like a charm, like a whispered expect of mysterious delight used to create the sense of power that the east had over the young man, incarnation the narrator has looked into the easts very soul used to show the connection between the narrator and the east. The excerpt clearly demonstrates how dumbfounded and impressed the narrator was with the east during his first impression.